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Nominations for the 83rd annual Golden Globes arrived before dawn on Monday and in a crowded awards season full of early feints and false starts, one film came away having clearly won the morning's skirmish: "One Battle After Another."

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, the Japanese American actor whose powerful glare and graceful menace made him a fixture of action films for more than four decades, has died at 75.

Dead or alive, he's coming to Eastern Market. OK, technically, the approximately 11-foot-tall bronze sculpture of RoboCop is neither dead nor alive. And technically, it's not coming to Detroit's Eastern Market area — it's already there.

Once again, it’s time to festoon ourselves with garlands, fire up the twinkle lights and examine the very special cinematic universe that is Netflix Christmas movies.

“Are you ready? Then we shall begin.” This narration, over an image of three moons hanging in the sky, begins Julia Jackman’s “100 Nights of Hero,” which she adapted from Isabel Greenberg’s 2016 graphic novel, and directed. It signifies that we are in for a level of heightened, self-reflective fantasy storytelling, and in fact, the revolutionary power of storytelling itself is the beating heart of this film.

Walt Disney Co.’s Zootopia 2 pulled in $272 million to claim China’s second-biggest opening ever for a foreign film, boosting the US studio in a key market.

Judi Dench is sharing an update on her life with a degenerative eye condition.

Vin Diesel is keeping Paul Walker's memory alive.

Joel Edgerton is ready to punch his awards season ticket.

LONDON – If you want to know the inspiration behind Jon M. Chu’s expansive, wondermentiful vision for the “Wicked” films, you’d have to go all the way back to Silicon Valley in the 1980s.

Reams of scholarship and fictional takes have imagined how Shakespeare’s earthly life influenced his plays. “Hamnet” isn’t one of them. The boldly devastating film from Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”) is far more primal than a speculative portrait of the artist.

"Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery," Rian Johnson's darkest, funniest and best installment yet in his three-film detective series, takes place in a church stunned by two sins. The first is murder. The second is theft: The franchise's star, Southern-fried private investigator Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), has the film stolen from him by a priest, Father Jud Duplenticy (Josh O'Connor), an ...

Chris Hemsworth's new documentary, "A Road Trip to Remember," takes viewers on a motorbike adventure around Melbourne and Australia's Northern Territory. His costar and father, 71-year-old Craig Hemsworth, is right alongside him through the dirt and rocky terrain, despite living with early stage Alzheimer's disease. Chris Hemsworth has a genetic predisposition to the disease.

After an extremely long intermission (a full year, which a lot of us spent humming “Defying Gravity”), we’re back in the Land of Oz with “Wicked: For Good,” the second half of Jon M. Chu’s screen version of the smash Broadway musical. The first film, 2024’s “Wicked,” was an absolute thrill ride; the second ... well, let’s just say I’m not overwhelmed. But maybe not underwhelmed, either; just whelmed, I guess.

All of us, at one time or another, wonder about our parents. Who are they really? What made them the people that they are?

When thieves break into John Wick's home, mayhem and retribution ensue. But thefts from the home of Keanu Reeves, the featured actor in that movie franchise, have led to law enforcement's return of his valuables followed by a polite, personally penned thank you note from the film star.

Adam Sandler and Timothée Chalamet are hitting the awards circuit − and the basketball court.

Get ready to do your best Kevin McCallister scream: “Home Alone” debuted in theaters 35 years ago.

Growing up can be painful. Between trying to find, and then be, yourself while also trying to fit in, and dealing with bullies and everything life throws your way, it is not a smooth journey.